intercom

English

Etymology

Clipping of intercommunicator.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

intercom (plural intercoms)

1. An independent, telephonic communication system, set up around and throughout a building, complex, or residence, typically for access control.

   emergency intercom

   talk on the intercom

Derived terms

• video intercom
• intercom system

Translations

an electronic communication system — see also intercommunicator

• Afrikaans: interkom
• Catalan: intèrfon m, intercomunicador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對講機 / 对讲机 (zh) (duìjiǎngjī)

• Danish: samtaleanlæg n, dørtelefon c
• Esperanto: pordotelefono
• Finnish: sisäpuhelin
• French: interphone (fr) m, portier électronique m, parlophone (fr) m (Belgium)
• Galician: porteiro automático m
• Georgian: ინტერკომი (inṭerḳomi), ორმხრივი კავშირი (ormxrivi ḳavširi), ორმხრივი შიდა კავშირი (ormxrivi šida ḳavširi)
• German: Gegensprechanlage (de) f, Sprechanlage (de) f
• Greek: θυροτηλέφωνο (el) n (thyrotiléfono)
• Hungarian: (doorphone, entryphone) kaputelefon (hu), (esp. for ringing remotely) kapucsengő (hu); (between rooms in a building) belső telefon/-hálózat, házi telefon/-hálózat
• Indonesian: interkom (id)
• Italian: citofono (it) m
• Japanese: インターホン (intāhon), インカム (inkamu), インターカム (intākamu)
• Korean: 인터폰 (ko) (inteopon)
• Polish: domofon (pl) m (entryphone)
• Portuguese: interfone (pt)
• Russian: интерко́м (ru) m (intɛrkóm), систе́ма двусторо́нней свя́зи f (sistéma dvustorónnej svjázi), перегово́рное устро́йство n (peregovórnoje ustrójstvo), домофо́н (ru) m (domofón) (entryphone), вну́тренняя связь f (vnútrennjaja svjazʹ)
• Spanish: portero automático m, telefonillo m, citófono m, intercom m (Latin America), interfono m
• Swedish: porttelefon (sv)
• Turkish: interkom
• Ukrainian: домофо́н m (domofón)

Verb

intercom (third-person singular simple present intercoms, present participle intercomming or intercoming, simple past and past participle intercommed or intercomed)

1. (ambitransitive) To communicate (with) by intercom.

See also

• door entry system
• entryphone

Anagrams

• INCO term, INCOTERM, Incoterm, incoterm, micronet

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English intercom.

Noun

intercom n (uncountable)

1. intercom

   Synonym: interfon

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	intercom	intercomul
genitive-dative	intercom	intercomului
vocative	intercomule

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English intercom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inteɾˈkom/ [ĩn̪.t̪eɾˈkõm]
  • Rhymes: -om
• IPA^(key): /ˈinteɾkom/ [ˈĩn̪.t̪eɾ.kõm]
  • Rhymes: -inteɾkom
• Syllabification: in‧ter‧com

Noun

intercom m (plural intercoms)

1. (Latin America) intercom

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “intercom”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010